Quote by Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

Other quotes by Ellen Glasgow

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow

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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. – Sam Peckinpah

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. – John Frederick Boyes

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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. – Joseph De Maistre

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In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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